A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

The contact of two epidermises.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?

The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.